Monday, October 01, 2012

Wind farm operators 'paid millions more than previously thought' by Grid to turn off turbines - Telegraph
Figures also showed that last week energy firms were effectively handed £400,000 by householders for doing nothing, under the arrangement.

The wind farms are paid to stop by the National Grid, which cannot cope with the extra energy produced by the high winds.

But the exact structure of the payments - that are passed on to householders in the form of higher energy bills - have been mired in secrecy.
Replica Viking boat launched on Merseyside to teach kids about climate change - Wirral News
Mr Paton said the image of the Vikings they were trying to convey ran counter to the traditional view of “raping, pillaging, and looting.”

He added: “They cared for their environment and they didn’t have a concept of waste as everything was used. They are a great lesson for us to learn about how to look after our environment.”
Flashback: Climate change killed off Viking settlement on Greenland
The settlement was founded in the 980s when the Greenland climate was close to conditions today. By 1100 however, the climate entered a period of lower temperature according to the team's lake readings. While the drop was only around 4 degrees Celsius, it would have affected food and trade.

It wasn't only the recently arrived Vikings who suffered say the Brown scientists. An earlier cooling, around 850 BC saw off the Saqqaq people who called Greenland home from around 2500 BC. They were supplanted by the Dorset people who vanish from the scene around 50 BC, possibly as the result of a further cooling.

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